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	<title>Comments on: Australia&#8217;s Net Censorship Sparks Outrage</title>
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		<title>By: A common teen</title>
		<link>http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/11/29/australias-net-censorship-sparks-outrage/comment-page-1/#comment-861770</link>
		<dc:creator>A common teen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I most certainly agree with you. I have trouble accessing my emails and the podcasts I upload!
I can&#039;t even download my Linux distros any more! 
- Forget skype
- Forget youtube
- forget Itunes
- Forget Linux
- Forget freedom of speech

This looks like the start of a communist australia. I wonder what we look like to the Americans and other countries? The country that tried? Kevin Krudd or Kruddie as most of us know him as. Is a stupid idiot. The americans are scoffing at us and all the rest of the world is laughing at our speeds. You might as well buy dial up as ADSL 2+ is now at the same speed as everybody else. We might even stop using the internet as it is too slow! Imagine that! So Mr Krudd, get f--ked.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I most certainly agree with you. I have trouble accessing my emails and the podcasts I upload!<br />
I can&#8217;t even download my Linux distros any more!<br />
- Forget skype<br />
- Forget youtube<br />
- forget Itunes<br />
- Forget Linux<br />
- Forget freedom of speech</p>
<p>This looks like the start of a communist australia. I wonder what we look like to the Americans and other countries? The country that tried? Kevin Krudd or Kruddie as most of us know him as. Is a stupid idiot. The americans are scoffing at us and all the rest of the world is laughing at our speeds. You might as well buy dial up as ADSL 2+ is now at the same speed as everybody else. We might even stop using the internet as it is too slow! Imagine that! So Mr Krudd, get f&#8211;ked.<br />
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		<title>By: Michel Merlin</title>
		<link>http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/11/29/australias-net-censorship-sparks-outrage/comment-page-1/#comment-843955</link>
		<dc:creator>Michel Merlin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:36:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;WC is busy&lt;/strong&gt;

Web Censorship is growing fast and soon becoming universal; they are testing in Australia but will certainly spread fast on the &lt;em&gt;World Wide&lt;/em&gt; Web; they are pretending child porn but this zero-credibility pretext is just the bait hiding the real censorship.

If AU government knows something is wrong (child porn for the matter), how can they imply that families don&#039;t? If families find something is inexistent or not dangerous, which right has the government to restrict citizens&#039; rights on that ground? If they are really only filtering what they say (namely, child porn), why do they need to hide the list?

All these are only pretexts; as all tyrants in history they are just stripping the People from their basic rights alleging doorkeeper-level so-called &quot;arguments&quot;.

The ones above faking to believe that citizens watch child porn and need government to stop them, are just censorship shills. As are people behind the hypocrite &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/SaveTheNet/442&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Get Up &quot;Save The Net&quot; petition No 442&lt;/a&gt;: they paint the problem as Australian, to better hide the maneuver is world wide; as child porn, to better hide that it&#039;s political and racial; as dangerous for bandwidth, to better hide that the real aim is at freedom of expression, hence incomparably worse.

Remember &lt;em&gt;Benjamin Franklin&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;Who trades a freedom for a security will lose both&lt;/strong&gt;.

(Don&#039;t hope find this famous quote on the web any more: the perpetrators are so annoyed with it that they have &quot;cleaned&quot; the web about it, removing most of the true references and drowning the rest by posting a flow of forged altered ones).

Versailles, Thu 4 Dec 2008 18:36:25 +0100</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>WC is busy</strong></p>
<p>Web Censorship is growing fast and soon becoming universal; they are testing in Australia but will certainly spread fast on the <em>World Wide</em> Web; they are pretending child porn but this zero-credibility pretext is just the bait hiding the real censorship.</p>
<p>If AU government knows something is wrong (child porn for the matter), how can they imply that families don&#8217;t? If families find something is inexistent or not dangerous, which right has the government to restrict citizens&#8217; rights on that ground? If they are really only filtering what they say (namely, child porn), why do they need to hide the list?</p>
<p>All these are only pretexts; as all tyrants in history they are just stripping the People from their basic rights alleging doorkeeper-level so-called &#8220;arguments&#8221;.</p>
<p>The ones above faking to believe that citizens watch child porn and need government to stop them, are just censorship shills. As are people behind the hypocrite <a href="http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/SaveTheNet/442" rel="nofollow">Get Up &#8220;Save The Net&#8221; petition No 442</a>: they paint the problem as Australian, to better hide the maneuver is world wide; as child porn, to better hide that it&#8217;s political and racial; as dangerous for bandwidth, to better hide that the real aim is at freedom of expression, hence incomparably worse.</p>
<p>Remember <em>Benjamin Franklin</em>: <strong>Who trades a freedom for a security will lose both</strong>.</p>
<p>(Don&#8217;t hope find this famous quote on the web any more: the perpetrators are so annoyed with it that they have &#8220;cleaned&#8221; the web about it, removing most of the true references and drowning the rest by posting a flow of forged altered ones).</p>
<p>Versailles, Thu 4 Dec 2008 18:36:25 +0100</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>By: Ashamed Australian</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ashamed Australian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I will be leaving this country if this goes through. This has been the single biggest attack on our democracy since it&#039;s founding.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I will be leaving this country if this goes through. This has been the single biggest attack on our democracy since it&#8217;s founding.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>By: nightwatchman</title>
		<link>http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/11/29/australias-net-censorship-sparks-outrage/comment-page-1/#comment-843280</link>
		<dc:creator>nightwatchman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rudd is slowly starting to slide down the slippery slope of p!ss!ng me off, and I thought he had some real potential.

Perhaps Conroy and Rudd are well-meaning but this crazy idea is likely to make sure they don&#039;t get another term in office.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rudd is slowly starting to slide down the slippery slope of p!ss!ng me off, and I thought he had some real potential.</p>
<p>Perhaps Conroy and Rudd are well-meaning but this crazy idea is likely to make sure they don&#8217;t get another term in office.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>By: Klas</title>
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		<dc:creator>Klas</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Pedophiles should be behind bars, NOT behind encrypted traffic and VPNs which this joke of a solution will encourage.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pedophiles should be behind bars, NOT behind encrypted traffic and VPNs which this joke of a solution will encourage.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Come to the Anti-censorship rally on December 13th 2008 11am at Sydney Town Hall square. A large group will be protesting while we&#039;re still allowed to. Freedom of speech is too important to be left to the wowsers. This is about the power to arbitrarily restrict the public&#039;s access to information about anything. The filter is mandatory, and the banned list is secret. This is totalitarian police state tactics, don&#039;t stand for it.
For more information: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=49916537640&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sydney Town Hall Protest to Stop Internet censorship &amp; filtering&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Come to the Anti-censorship rally on December 13th 2008 11am at Sydney Town Hall square. A large group will be protesting while we&#8217;re still allowed to. Freedom of speech is too important to be left to the wowsers. This is about the power to arbitrarily restrict the public&#8217;s access to information about anything. The filter is mandatory, and the banned list is secret. This is totalitarian police state tactics, don&#8217;t stand for it.<br />
For more information: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=49916537640" rel="nofollow">Sydney Town Hall Protest to Stop Internet censorship &amp; filtering</a></p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>By: ferrari_chris</title>
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		<dc:creator>ferrari_chris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:56:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wow.  I fear this is just the beginning of a slippery slope.

Sure, it&#039;s well intended with the blocking of child-porn and that, but I&#039;m sure nobody thinks the level of censorship applied to the Chinese Internet connections is acceptable?  This govt. introduced net filtering is just the same, only on a lower level.

A slippery slope...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow.  I fear this is just the beginning of a slippery slope.</p>
<p>Sure, it&#8217;s well intended with the blocking of child-porn and that, but I&#8217;m sure nobody thinks the level of censorship applied to the Chinese Internet connections is acceptable?  This govt. introduced net filtering is just the same, only on a lower level.</p>
<p>A slippery slope&#8230;</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>By: what is this bloke up to</title>
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		<dc:creator>what is this bloke up to</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says he will raise concerns with the Chinese Government about internet censorship during the Olympics. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is concerned by the censorship stance in Beijing.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says he will raise concerns with the Chinese Government about internet censorship during the Olympics. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is concerned by the censorship stance in Beijing.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>By: Duke</title>
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		<dc:creator>Duke</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 13:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Jack says:  I don&#039;t know jack about this so I won&#039;t post jack...t anymore proving whata jack.ss I am...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jack says:  I don&#8217;t know jack about this so I won&#8217;t post jack&#8230;t anymore proving whata jack.ss I am&#8230;</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>By: mailco</title>
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		<dc:creator>mailco</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 04:58:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Australians have been victims of Government now since day one. Australians right to bear arms and defend themselves has been taken away but still any criminal can have a weapon. Now they want to restrict our rights to view any information as they see fit. Who is going to censor the censors. This is one more step down the slippery slop of losing our freedom. If they can&#039;t stop spam or gambling how are they going to stop what they consider undesirable and at what price? They always tell us they have not got the money to help the more unfortunate ones amongst us, but they have enough money to censor what we do?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Australians have been victims of Government now since day one. Australians right to bear arms and defend themselves has been taken away but still any criminal can have a weapon. Now they want to restrict our rights to view any information as they see fit. Who is going to censor the censors. This is one more step down the slippery slop of losing our freedom. If they can&#8217;t stop spam or gambling how are they going to stop what they consider undesirable and at what price? They always tell us they have not got the money to help the more unfortunate ones amongst us, but they have enough money to censor what we do?</p>]]></content:encoded>
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